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D. Transcendentalism - You will be presented with quotes from texts we have read and asked to
identify which Transcendental trait they represent. (List and explain the traits below.)
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• "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being
circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God" (Emerson 373). from "Nature"
• "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist" (Emerson 370). from "Self-Reliance"
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think" (Emerson 372). from
"Self-Reliance"
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams...he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours" (Emerson 370). from "Self-Reliance"
"Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and
mosquito's wing that falls on the rails" (Thoreau 383). from "Walden"